(a) No person shall tap, open or make connections with any sanitary or combined sewer within the City or cause the same to be done without first having procured a license to do so as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to tap, open or make connections with such sewer or engage in the business of sewer tapping and making sewer connections with public sewers or drains, shall make application in writing for such license to the Service Director. The Director shall examine or cause to be examined the qualifications of such applicant for such license and shall grant a license if the applicant is found to be qualified therefor and complies with all other requirements of this chapter.
(1) The applicant shall have a minimum of four years of acceptable experience in the construction of sewer lines. At least two years of this experience shall be as a foreman or field superintendent over a sewer construction crew, or equivalent experience.
(2) The applicant shall possess all equipment necessary in the judgment of the Director or his authorized representative, to adequately make connections to the public sewer system and to construct the related sewer systems being connected to the public sewer. Such equipment shall be of adequate capacity and maintained in proper working order so as to provide adequate performance at all times.
(3) A sewer tapper's license shall authorize the licensee to tap, open and make connection with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities under the provisions of the ordinances of the City and laws of the State provided that such license shall not be issued nor become effective until such applicant files with the City Treasurer a bond in the form prescribed by the Director, with surety or sureties licensed to do business in the State of Ohio and approved by the Director in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000) and containing provisions that such licensee shall indemnify and save harmless any person or the City from all loss or damage that may be either directly or indirectly occasioned by his opening, tapping or making connection with any public sewer or drain, or drainage facility, failure to properly perform work or any work incident thereto. Should the surety or sureties withdraw from bond, or the bond for any reason becomes of no effect, then the license issued to such applicant shall immediately become void without notice.
(4) The licensee, in making excavations in any street, alley, public way or other public place shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of law and the ordinances of the City now in force or which may be hereafter adopted, regulating excavations. If the licensee violates any of the ordinances of the City or laws of the State relative to the excavating of streets or other public places, or the opening, tapping and/or connecting with public sewers, drains and drainage facilities, the Director shall have the power to suspend the license for such time as he may deem proper, or revoke the same as he may deem appropriate in the public interest.
(5) By acceptance of a sewer tapper's license, the applicant assumes responsibility for restoring any pavement, curb, sidewalk, driveway, sewer pipe or appurtenance, shrubbery, lawn or other facility in the public right-of-way which was disturbed or damaged by the operation.
(6) The Director or his authorized representative shall have the authority to require the applicant, before work is started in a public right-of-way, to have two men on the job: one operator of trenching equipment and one man as a pipe layer.
(7) Fraudulent statements or other misrepresentations made by the applicant in his application for a license, or failure to show adequate performance in laying of a sewer line, or failure to abide by any of the foregoing provisions, shall be grounds for the denial or revocation of the license by the Director.
(b) No person shall perform septic tank repair or cleaning service in the City without first having procured a license to do so as hereinafter provided. Any person desiring to perform or engage in the business of such service shall make application in writing for such license to the Washington County Board of Health. The City Board of Health shall honor all septic tank repair/cleaning services that are licensed by a Health District within the State of Ohio.
(1) The applicant shall have a minimum of two years of acceptable experience in the business of septic tank cleaning and repair. The applicant shall also possess all equipment necessary in the judgment of the Board of Health or his authorized representative, to adequately perform septic tank cleaning and repair. Such equipment shall be of adequate capacity and maintained in proper working order so as to provide adequate performance at all times.
(2) Fraudulent statements or other misrepresentations made by the applicant in this application for a license, or failure to show adequate performance in the service of septic tank cleaning or repair, shall be grounds for denial or revocation of the license by the Board. The Board shall have the power to suspend the license for such time as he may deem proper, or revoke the same as he may deem appropriate in the public interest.
(Ord. 239 (86-87). Passed 7-2-87.)